This course explores policy and school improvement, and focuses in particular on the U.S. public school system, with an emphasis on both equity and access. In this course we begin by asking: what is a public education for, and then consider how schools can be improved so that educational outcomes are ambitious and equitable. We build students' understandings for the practice of teaching to investigate the dynamics of education reform.

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